July 31, 2016
Bu Maggie Severns
...But for the many people of Missouri, (click here)) especially the approximately 600,000 Republicans who expect to vote in the GOP primary Tuesday, the lesson of Ferguson is not that the police used too much force, it’s that it used too little. Ferguson, to them, was an embarrassment: preventable chaos that tarnished the name of the otherwise orderly St. Louis suburbs. Those nightly images of lawlessness, in their eyes, were an indictment of the weak-kneed way Democratic Governor Jay Nixon let protesters and outside agitators run amok, looting without apparent consequence. This governor’s race, the first major statewide contest since the unrest, is the first chance Missourians have had to register anger that has only grown since the summer of 2014....
If I understand the Missouri state race, there is a chance for the Republicans to hold the state legislature across the board. If there is a Republican majority in Missouri in all the state houses and governship, it is anyone's guess what the legislature will establish to control minority communities.
